Guides

Blocks

Doku ships with eight purpose-built Gutenberg blocks for software documentation. Each block’s name starts with…

Customization

Doku is designed to be customized without modifying theme files. This page covers your logo…

Colors

The Branding section of Appearance > Customize > Doku Options decides which color scheme a…

Layout

Appearance > Customize > Doku Options > Layout. Documentation, posts and pages share one frame:…

Header, Footer and Documentation Pages

Three sections of Appearance > Customize > Doku Options decide what appears around the article.…

Reset and Per-entry Overrides

Two ways to step back from a Customizer change: return the whole panel to its…

Changing the Fonts

Doku uses two typefaces, and each is reached through a single custom property, so swapping…

CSS Custom Properties Reference

All design tokens are defined in doku/assets/css/main.css. Override any of these in a child theme…

Creating a Child Theme

For persistent customizations, create a child theme rather than editing theme files directly. This way…

Translating Doku

Every string Doku puts on screen is translatable. They are split across two text domains,…

Markdown Importer

Import existing .md files as draft doc posts without manual copy-paste. Go to Documentation >…

Markdown Export

Every documentation page can be taken back out as Markdown. This is the importer in…

For Developers

This chapter is for people extending Doku in code — building a block, reading the…